OPINION
Fishy statistics
Dr Martin Jaffa asks: has the pandemic reversed the long decline in fresh fish consumption? A new report commissioned by the Alaskan Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) would seem to suggest...
Never-ending Brexit
The UK's European divorce continues to have repercussions for the salmon industry It always used to be said that Scottish devolution was “a process not an event”. Well, it seems...
Huffing and puffin
Our favourite seabirds are facing a shortage of sand eels, but please don't blame the fish farmers. On 15 May 2021, the Herald newspaper included a two-page commercial feature placed...
The feed conundrum
There have been great strides forward in aquafeed, but the industry will need to continue looking for even better solutions. When I was first in the industry, feed was pelletised...
Disappearing act
A statistical glitch meant figures for Scottish salmon exported to the EU in January were wildly wrong, but it took a while for HMRC to realise there was a problem....
Chicken feed
Maybe it’s time to revisit a bright idea from the 1990s? Industry critics regularly refer to comments, made by the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy and Connectivity (REC) Committee in 2018,...
The Changing of the Guard
So here it is, my dear old Mum is nearing the end and it is a sad, sad process to have to stand by and watch. Many of you will...
